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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:02:23 -0600
From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
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Subject: copying cron files between computers
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Hello,

I'm want to keep the cron files between two 5.3-STABLE computers 
"synchronized".  From my reading on cron(8), crontab(1), and crontab(5),
accomplishing this might be a little convoluted.  

Would something like this work?

computer-A:  

    root# crontab -u joeuser -l > /usr/home/joeuser/cron

get files from computer-A to computer-B


computer-B:

    root# crontab -u joeuser  /usr/home/joeuser/cron


As an alternative, would anyone suggest a cron replacement, like mcron?
As I read it, mcron stores it's files in a users ~/.cron directory.
Thereby eliminating the dump and read of each user's cron.

Thanks for the help and suggestions.

-- 
Regards,
Doug